Hashing pdf

NOTES ON HASHING. Author: Jayakanth Srinivasan [email protected] Introduction. Any large information source (data base) can be thought of as a table (with. What is Hashing? The idea is to discover the location of a key by simply examining the key. For that we need to design a hash function. A Hash Function is a. table. • Collisions are hard to avoid so we have to find a way to deal with them. • Methods. – Open addressing (probing). • Linear, quadratic, double-hashing.